When Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, his successor declared "our long national nightmare" over, but while Watergate fed a cancer of cynicism weakening our will to act, few were as directly affected by it as they've been by gun violence, the bad dream from which...
For decades, small business policy has been reactionary, endeavoring only to patch up cracks in the Main Street facade, rather than treat start-ups and mom and pops like the powerful futuristic growth engine they can be and truly are...
The answer to the Bermuda Triangle question of macroeconomics: how mom-and-pops and start-ups created nearly two-thirds of new jobs in our country over the last quarter-century+, yet still employ less than half our workforce...
Ron DeSantis believes he stands in the doorway of Florida schools and other institutions, forbidding indoctrination to pass. We think he projecteth too much...
They say sunlight is the best disinfectant; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has been demonstrating, to a concerning degree, that artificial light can and often does have the opposite effect...
Back when civics was central to education, "vote early and often" was a good government slogan. Now we need civics early and often to restore good government once more...
"American democracy will work and reform will prove possible only if obligations join rights at center stage." So writes Richard Haass. We agree, and discuss what they should be...
Republicans know from the four years they were in power that there's no need for debt ceiling to put the US or us through the roof--solutions abound, with or without them...
ChatGPT may disagree, but artificial human intelligence continues to be a greater threat to our way of life than AI, while the real thing remains the best antidote to the potential toxicity of both...
We remember three good citizens (and then three more) who left us in body in 2022, but not in spirit, as well as the works and inspiration they left behind for us to build on...
